Winter arts guide

From pop-punk singers to contemporary Brazilian dance troupes, the Boston area has a myriad of exciting artists and performers scheduled to come to town. Check out a sampling of events on the horizon in this winter arts guide.

Singer-songwriter turned playwright Dan Hunter’s dark comedy about a missing father and a divided family features perfomances by Adrianne Krtansky, Kippy Goldfarb, Jen Alison Lewis, and Christopher James Webb.

This Tennessee Williams’s play put on by the American Repertory Theater features a star-studded cast including two-time Tony winner Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto, of “American Horror Story: Asylum” and “Star Trek” fame.

Perfomring Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto, conductor Vladimir Jurowski leads the London Philharmonic in these timeless classics, which also features a violin solo by Vadim Repin.

Pictured: The London Philharmonic Orchestra performing in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, last January.

This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts will be displaying 26 renderings by the famed Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The works are normally housed in a Florence museum building once owned by the man himself.